This is an analysis of the poem If I Weep that begins with:

If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears.
Every cruelty which he commits becomes him, every cruelty which he...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXXbbbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011001010101101001 10010011010111001001101101 010111010101010010100 0100101100111111101011001 10111010111010011010100 101101011001110110111111101 11111110010111011110 10111011111001001100 11101111010011011110100 01001110100111010100100001 11110010011110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 953
  • Average number of words per stanza: 181
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 86 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 16
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, if, ache, my, he, his, only, me, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word only is repeated.

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